Territorial Expansion 8a

America Started To Expand from 1801 and 1861, So this page is about Territory Expansion


What Territories?

• Louisiana Purchase
• Florida
• Texas
• Oregon
• California

L0UiSiANA PURCHASE

• 1803
• Thomas Jefferson bought this from France
• This doubled the size of the US
• Lewis And Clark explored this

LEWiS AND CLARKE EXPEDiTI0N

• Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke
• It was From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

FL0RiDA

• 1819
• From Spain
• Was a US territory in 1821

TEXAS

• 1845
• Was a Independant Republic in 1836
• It was its own country
• it was added to the US

0REG0N

• 1846
• Oregon Territory
• Was divided between the US and Great Britain
• Oregon Trail (1840)

CALiF0RNiA

• US was at war with Mexico
• Rio Grande Dispute
• US gets Cali. and Southwest territories.

(California Gold Rush)


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5-15-08